Sleep Paralysis

[Pheebs]

I suffer from this every so often and had a spate of it last night. Does anyone else suffer from this?

It's really horrible and although there's a pattern to it, it still manages to freak me out every time.

I will be "wide awake", with my eyes wide wide open (they feel the size of plates) but my breathing will be really really shallow... almost not enough to survive. I am completely and entirely paralysed. I can't even move a millimeter. I'm normally on my back and after a minute of realising I'm shafted... I will start to hear thuds coming from the landing. Then.. from no where... a lady will appear in the door way. She's always facing away from me, wearing a big white gown of sorts but it's torn and dripping with blacky red blood. Her hair is tangled and arms contorted behind her head with her legs bent inwards... it's almost as if she has broken arms.

Then... she'll start to move. It's a weird moving. A bit jaggered like and blurry. The only time I have seen movement like it was when watching the House on the Haunted Hill film - when you see people moving through the video footage. It will be heavy but quick movements and each step is a thud noise. She will then suddenly appear at the end of the bed... and waver a bit still facing away from me and moving erratically... and then appear right next to me. I can't see her properly by this point as I can't move or turn my head... but she will loom over me, this time facing me, head down and hair stuck to hair face but shadowing it enough to not make out any features... and then... her face will suddenly be an inch or two away from mine, bright green eyes, almost glowing, terrified eyes.... I can even feel her breath on my face... and "hear" her scream (it's a weird noise... I can't describe it). After this, it's all over. I wake up, sit bolt right up, covered in sweat and try and move all parts of my body to make sure none or it stays in "paralysis" mode.

All the flipping time it is happening though I am desperately fighting to move or twitch or scream. I will take in a "deep" breath in to force a scream out and it ends up being the quietest of noises you can summon from the back of your nose. Every time I panic. I know that just one word out of my mouth or a slight movement from me will wake me up and it will be over... but 90% of the time I'm just stuck.

I don't get scared of dreams... In fact... I love them generally... but these ones are just terrifying.

*shudders*

*am knackered from a disruptive nights sleep*

[TinkerBell]

Awwww no, that sounds HORRIBLE

*Big hugs*

[Gnat]

Oooooh that sounds horrid!

I have only ever had it once. I had been having a nap in a chair in front of the tv, and woke up, but couldnt move. I was wide awake and could think, could hear the tv, and could hear the other person in the room sitting on the sofa awake, but couldnt do anything other than breathe. It was horrible, and I did start to panic a little, and then after a few minutes it just wore off.

It has never happenned since, and its not something I'd like to repeat.

But your scary lady thing sounds absolutely horrid!

[Tak]

I don't get sleep paralysis but I do suffer from night terrors.

[Pheebs]

House on the Haunted Hill Trailer

The only bit I could find like it movement wise is about 1min 30... where the guy shakes his head around. It's ashame I couldn't find the jerkiness of it... but it's so quick.. yet slow... and blurry.

Weird.

Tis a bit freaky deaky

Sometimes I am lying on my side and I can see the back of Pickys head... and then it'll start shaking and he'll turn it to face me and it's not his face... but it's green eyed and covered in blood....

I then wake up, facing Picky but he's lying away from me and I'm like "I don't want to wake him in case it's not him and he's covered in blood!" but at the same time I'm scared and need a hug and need to make sure I'm not sleeping with a bloody covered green eyed scary man!

[Roberta]

Sounds awful.

I occasionally get sleep paralysis but without the visions you get with it. I tend to go back to sleep and wake from it later, although once I couldn't and kept trying to scream and woke up with a raw throat from it!

I once fell asleep with my eyes open. That was totally bizarre!

[Jonny69]

I get it every now and then. No pattern to it, completely random. Dream is usually along the same lines of trying to defend myself in some way but unable to.

[Wossi]

Good lord, I would be soiling the bed if that happened to me. I know what you mean about the movement and that would really freak me out

[Belmit]

I love nightmares, and that one sounds awesome!

Those parts in House on Haunted Hill are probably the scariest I've ever seen in a movie. Just something about them sends chills through me. But I like it!

[LeperousDust]

Pheebs that description sounds truly horrendous. I don't mind dreams, and even bad dreams (i was drowned last night whilst being electrocuted...) but they're dreams what you described is halfway to being almost normal, that would freak me out completely (or at least I'd try but nothing would happen). I hope to god i never suffer from that...